Summary

Mass view and edit content in a summary table

Version

Version 1.0.0

Copyright and licence

Copyright 2007 Red Innovation

Licenced under GPL.

Purpose

Summary product adds a new field type "SummaryField". SummaryField allows viewing and editing data collected from other content objects. Data is displayed as a table which acts as a shortcut for quick overviews and mass editing.

This product is aimed for Plone developers only. Python knowledge is needed for the product usage.

The orignal use case for this product was editing of a hospital patient visit information. A doctor needed to have a quick look to patient visit and laboratory measurement information.

Other imaginary use cases:

See screenshots.

Features

Out-of-box supported field and widget types

Installation

Use Plone quick installer to install demo types if you wish to see the product in action. 

Usage

Please see supplied demo content types and their source code how to use this product.

Comparison with DataGridField

Feature comparison with DataGridField product which is another table editor component

Features in DataGridField Features in Summary
Stores data in object field Stores data in arbitary storage backend
Cool Javascripted UI to add new rows easily New rows cannot be added without a custom code
Rich stylesheet customization hooks Per cell input value validators
Per cell input value locking
Works around some ZPublisher limitations
Rich stylesheet customization hooks
More flexible API

Quality assurance

The product is supplied with basic unit tests.

Following product combination was used for system testing

Known bugs

Sponsorship

This product development was sponsored by ZiteLab.

Contact

Use plone.org product area issue tracker to report bugs and suggestions for the product.

To ask help, to sponsor product development or to hire skilled Plone developers, please contact us.info@redinnovation.com

www.redinnovation.com

Wishing a happy Ploning,

Mikko "Moo" Ohtamaa